I think you underestimate computers. Taking 2fps screen recordings is a trivial task. Doing OCR may be slightly more work but at 2fps I doubt it is an issue. Worse case you could tune the OCR frequency based on the computer's abilities.

You're confusing 2fps with 1-screenshot-every-2-seconds (or 0.5fps), what the README actually says).

I wouldn't be surprised if the battery issue is problematic, likely will result in at least some kind of battery life reduction, but perhaps not 30 or 50% at 0.5fps.

I haven't looked into the code, but if you're running ffmpeg, then battery life will likely take a hit depending on what exactly you're doing. Video encoding _can be_ heavy on the CPU/GPU.

That makes it even less work. Running ffmpeg is just video encoding, I don't think a 0.5fps video would be a huge issue.

Lots of people work plugged in most of the time. I don't see why one would want to gatekeep to keep them from using it.

What gate keeping? I just see a valid correction to your misstatement and your reaction reads like a defensive Karen wrote it.

Not supporting a platform just because it may cause it may cause battery drain which may not even matter to plugged in users seems like gatekeeping.

it's literally an open source MIT licensed hobby project. fork it and improve it and share here. complaining about it is kinda rude.

I don’t have an Intel Mac to test on- but you can absolutely just clone it and swap the config to Intel

I have to agree. If you're interested in supporting Intel(x86/64), it's open source, and you sound like you have the hardware to add support for and test on Intel.

Not supporting? The commenter simply said it may cause battery drain. It is a discussion on the topic (both sides based purely on conjecture), and a relevant one. You disagreeing does not mean others are "gate keeping". Stop trying to weaponize trendy language and white knight this thread.

The original README was claiming that relies on Apple Silicon and that they have configured builds to exclude other Apple platforms. I see it has been greatly softened now to "Only tested on Apple Silicon, and the release is Apple Silicon" which I think is quite reasonable.

I have no problem with not supporting a platform because you have no interest or any other reason, but previously it was quite proud to not support it which is different.

Ridiculous. You are working very hard to be offended.

I haven't looked this codebase yet, but a screenshot every few seconds isn't a noticeable slowdown on most machines.

At such slow rates you don't need to create video - you just keep the individual images.

OCR doesn't need to be real-time, but can be done in batch mode or when the machine is idle.

I had been doing that with opensource Linksys ip cameras since 2010 and they only have like 180mhz and 32MB RAM. What are you thinking about?